episode_0112

“I can’t eat this, shit, seriously!!!”

Kyle forced out a frustrated sound as he swung his staff and blew off the orc’s head.

“There’s no end to it, there’s no end to it, this is fucking sick!”

Kyle, who had been protecting the other nobles alone, was truly disillusioned with his job.

Because I had to protect the stupid girl and the pigs when I could have just gone and fought.

“That corpse bastard is no easy feat…!”

“That Kyle…?”

“What’s going on now? You’re driving me crazy. ”

“That… You can just go up to enemies that only shoot arrows and grab them, right? Since you’re shooting arrows, your strength and close combat skills are lacking…”

Kyle, who was crushing the orc’s head, looked at Lizel as if to say, “What the hell are you talking about?”

“What kind of talk is that of a son of the late emperor avoiding women?”

“I’m not confident in my strength, so I wonder if I should shoot a bow instead of a sword or spear…”

“Hey, Miss. How can someone so weak pull the bow and shoot an arrow that far?”

In fact, there is probably no weapon that requires as much strength as a bow. Kyle knew this fact better than anyone else, so he couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

He too had seen the phantom arrows raining down on the battlefield. How could any fool call those arrows weak, each and every one of them comparable to a siege weapon?

“That kid is just a monster.”

The power to pull back the bow, the speed to draw the next arrow as soon as the arrow leaves the bow, the eyesight to detect the movement of a fly a thousand miles away.

And even the archery skills that are of unknown depth.

“… I hope everyone is safe.”

When Kyle expressed his concern, one of the orcs blurted out something he shouldn’t have said in an attempt to shake him up.

“Khahahaha! What foolish talk! The king of the ghosts himself came here, and how could they dodge the arrows so close! From the emperor to the empress and even Raoul Berger, they will all die today…”

And at that moment, something sharp pierced the orc’s forehead.

The orc died instantly before he could finish his words, and Lizel found herself taking a step back without realizing it.

He split a wooden staff, which was not easily broken, with his knee and drove it into the head of one of the orcs.

“What did you say? You little brats who would tear their mother apart and fry her…”

“Kyle…?”

Kyle seemed to have completely forgotten the staff and spear techniques he had learned from Raoul and Camilla. He simply killed orcs by poking their heads with the sharp ends of split staffs.

I couldn’t even feel a hint of the delicate techniques they taught me.

Eventually, when he was no longer able to use his sword, he resorted to holding onto a huge marble table that was 2.6 meters tall and using it to kill the orcs.

“Each and every one of them is a force close to a natural disaster! How can a corpse stop them when they’re all gathered here!!! Those who even defeated the Demon King?!!!!”

The sight of him swinging that huge block of marble and slaughtering the demons was almost like that of a demon or a beast.

The usual appearances were that of Raul, Camilla, and Leila desperately trying to instill manners, but now that their precious ones had been insulted, there was no need to be needlessly polite.

An ordinary person might feel a sense of loss upon seeing such a sight, but for the somewhat unusual Lizel, seeing such a sight made her heart flutter, even if only a little.

On the other hand, Camilla also felt her heart pounding and swung her spear.

Camilla bit her lip as she felt a unique excitement that could only be felt when death was right before her eyes. It was a primal excitement that could not be matched by emotions like excitement.

Each and every arrow that the King of Ghosts fired ceaselessly was aimed at a vital point and had enough power to destroy even a castle wall.

“Bloodline of the Empire! Shadows of the unvirtuous! The price for the sins of your ancestors has now come upon you!”

The King of Ghosts was spewing out old emotions that were almost bordering on wrath. And yet, his arrows had not lost their sharpness at all, which was truly maddening and exhilarating.

“… Your Majesty. Are you saying that the arrows of the sins committed by our distant ancestors are directed at the innocent descendants of the empire? How is it that names whose genealogy goes back so far have become our names?”

“Isn’t the foundation of your footing the bones of those your ancestors killed? Wasn’t it the blood of my people that watered the fields where they grew the things they ate and drank? Why should the fruit be unclean, what the root has eaten and drunk?”

The King of the Ghosts quickly shot the three bones out of the way after hanging them on the wall.

An ivory light shot out at them, and the Empress and Camilla could barely deflect it.

However, no matter how desperately he deflected it, his posture was incorrect, and the moment his weapon made contact with the arrow, the shock wave was transmitted to his bones.

Even if they fought each other, there was no clear chance of winning. The King of Ghosts’ martial arts skills were no less than his archery skills.

Her overwhelming physical strength, utilizing her four arms and monstrous body, was far superior to Camilla’s.

“Empire! Empire! The war is not over yet! Their king is still here! The tyrant is still here! Come and put an end to the war you have started! It will continue until one side is completely destroyed and disappears! Wasn’t this the war you defined!!!”

He was angry. He couldn’t help being angry. He had lost his country, but he could still be king. He had lost his name, his honor, his pride, and all that was left was the empty title of king. If he lost even that, he would be nothing.

As a king of the past, he could only see the past. As a king, he had to be angry at the deaths of his people. Even through anger, he had to endure the indifferent flow of time. Through anger, he was able to remember his people in the indifferent flow of time.

Since he was a king who had everything in the past, he had no choice but to live trapped in the past. Because he was trapped in the past, he had to be angry forever in that tragedy. Because he had to be angry, he had no choice but to deny everything except the past. Because he denied everything except the past, he could not have anything except the past.

Such vicious cycles turned the king into a monster.

People were beings who looked ahead and moved forward.

But it was not a ghost. It was a being that lived only to resolve past grudges.

That is why the king was truly a ghost.

He was a pitiful phantom who could no longer move forward.

A pitiful ghost who burns his own soul with a flame that will not go out.

“Today’s empire is different from that of that time!”

“Did you say it was different? Look at what the Seonje did to the Demon King! Look at how he trampled on the heart of the man who once loved him! Look at how he betrayed the one who once protected them with that sword! Speak with the mouth that claims that the empire has changed!!!”

“… We have taken preemptive action with our own hands…! How does that not prove that the Empire is different than it was back then!”

“The first reason is that you want to wash blood with blood! The second reason is that you are the nobles who don’t even have time to reflect even after beheading the emperor! The last reason is that you are the foolish people of the empire who throw stones at the hero!!!”

In the rain of sharp arrows, the empress became more and more exhausted.

It was no different from a fight that could not be won, so for the first time the empress was left speechless.

How could one defend an empire in front of a king who had lost his country? It was like defending a murderer in front of a mother who had lost her child.

The empress is already suffering from the mere fact that a hunting festival was held here. How can she say in front of the King of Ghosts that the empire is not wrong?

“The empire will not change. Do you think there was no one who tried to change that rotten empire? The names of such people are abundant throughout history. But do you not know what the result was? The war you experienced was the result. The shameful war caused by ugly desires was the result. ”

In the midst of the harsh criticism, the empress was unable to refute anything.

“A wise woman whom I acknowledge. A talented woman who is not fit for the empire. Answer with your intelligence. Is there any reason why the empire should not fall? Answer with logic to support that reasonable reason.”

If we consider moral logic such as the lives of innocent people, the empire will have nothing to say.

Because the empire destroyed the country ruled by the King of Ghosts through unjust means and committed unspeakable acts against the Demon King’s wife.

The logic of power was also not something to be considered, as the king of ghosts was destroyed simply because he had no power.

If the empire went around destroying countries weaker than itself, then the Demon King would also try to destroy an empire weaker than himself.

No amount of logic could prove that the empire was worth continuing.

“…”

“If you can’t prove it… I’ll just shoot everyone with my bow that continues the war.”

The king of the ghosts shot arrows and horses to dispel their fears.

By spitting out those things that can never be picked up again, you can forget, if only for a moment, the guilt that eats away at you.

At the same time, he was still afraid.

I was still terribly afraid that I might sympathize with the innocent people of the empire.

But if I saw them, pitied them, and forgave them… it seemed like my people, the tears they shed, the resentment they held, and the traces they left behind would all disappear.

So the king was afraid and angry.

So that you can forget your guilt and turn your eyes away from the painful reality.

“Come on, tell me why you won’t destroy the empire!!!”

And at that moment, a hollow, cold voice flew through the anger and fear.

“Because I do not wish it, O King of Illusions.”

that.

Needless to say, the voice of a typical, petty family head was evident.